Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in the deaths of her four children and now they are asking to review the decision. Photo: AFP File
Kathleen Folbigg’s case reopened the possibility of reviewing the decision that in 2003 she was sentenced, in Australia, to 30 years in prison for killed his four children.
Attorney general for the New South Wales region, Mark Speakman, said in a statement that whether former judge Thomas Bathurst, who is overseeing this second independent investigation, is considered to have a “reasonable doubt” that the children did not die at the hands of his own mother, then he would refer the case to the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Folbigg, that was sentenced in 2003 to 30 years in prison for the murder of four of his children, he repeatedly appealed his conviction without success.
On this occasion, Folbigg’s lawyers, defending his innocence, argue that there is scientific evidence that could explain the deaths of natural and genetic causes of four men, between 1989 and 1999 and between of age. 19 days and 18 months.
In March 2021, some ninety scientists, including genetic disorder experts, signed a petition asking the Governor-General of New South Wales, Margaret Beazley, to pardon and release the 54-year-old woman, under consideration. that there was strong evidence proving his innocence.
At the time, specialists conducted genetic studies of the dead children and hopefully discovered that the four boys had suffered from genetic mutations that would have caused them to suffer more easily. sudden deathwhich the defense itself stands for and by Folbigg.
Also, a scientific study published in Eurospace magazine in 2019 determined that it was a genetic mutation called CALM2 that causes sudden cardiac death.
Speakman, who refused to pardon Folbigg as “inappropriate,” stressed that only a “transparent, public and fair” investigation can provide clarity on the facts.
In 2018, the first judicial review dismissed by a magistrate a year later was conducted, as well as its subsequent appeal in March 2021.
Known as Australia’s “worst serial killer”, Folbigg was originally sentenced to 40 years in New South Wales High Court prison, with a final 30-year sentence, then commuted his sentence to 30 years with 25 without conditional freedom.
His lawyers insisted there is no hard evidence to determine that he killed his children and maintained to these people that the children died of natural causes.
With information from EFE
Source: Clarin
